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On 10—13 March, 2014 a meeting of the Working Party of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) programme Indicators of Education Systems took place in Paris. Natalia Kovaleva, Director of the ISSEK’s Centre for Statistics and Monitoring of Education, comments on the main discussion topics.

Professor Jonathan Linton, Power Corporation Professor for the Management of Technological Enterprise of the University of Ottawa, Canada, and Editor-in-Chief of the Technovation journal has been appointed as the new Head of the HSE Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies at ISSEK the Institute of Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge. Professor Linton is no stranger to the HSE. He has given seminars and he spoke at the April Conference last year. In this interview for the HSE English Language News Service he talked about what he hopes to achieve in his new job.

Professor Jonathan Linton, Power Corporation Professor for the Management of Technological Enterprise of the University of Ottawa, Canada, and Editor-in-Chief of the Technovation journal has been appointed as the new Head of the HSE Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies at ISSEK the Institute of Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge. Professor Linton is no stranger to the HSE. He has given seminars and he spoke at the April Conference last year. In this interview for the HSE English Language News Service he talked about what he hopes to achieve in his new job.

Professor Jonathan Linton, Power Corporation Professor for the Management of Technological Enterprise of the University of Ottawa, Canada, and Editor-in-Chief of the Technovation journal has been appointed as the new Head of the HSE Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies at ISSEK the Institute of Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge. Professor Linton is no stranger to the HSE. He has given seminars and he spoke at the April Conference last year. In this interview for the HSE English Language News Service he talked about what he hopes to achieve in his new job.

A report by Alexander Ramonov at the regular LCSR seminar

A presentation delivered at the “Culture Matters” seminar on March, 13. Alexis Belianin, Ph. D., is the Head of Laboratory for Experimental and Behavioral Economics.

A new master’s programme in Applied Social Psychology is set to launch at the HSE in 2014.

Many Russians, when asked  whether certain occupations, particularly those of a politician or an academic, are prestigious or desirable,will give a different answer depending on whether they are refering to their own attitudes, perceived societal attitudes, or preferred career choices for their children. So Konstantin Fursov and Valentina Polyakova, research fellows at the HSE's ISSEK, found in their study Monitoring Innovative Behaviour in the Russian Population

A report by Veronica Kostenko at the regular LCSR seminar

February 20 hosted the seminar of thematic cycle "Institutional problems of the Russian economy", organized by the Institute for Industrial and Market Economics. The report "Transition and path-dependence in knowledge-intensive industry location: case of Russian professional services" made PhD of geographical sciences researcher at the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (HSE) Denis Ivanov.
In the report, Denis Ivanov noted in many respects unique situation for  Russia when in fact the business services market is formed due to the reduction of extensive scientific sector, which was once the Soviet Union and was forced to transform after the "economic shock". The emerging sector relied on the research and development of the Soviet period as a source of skilled labor and largely inherited its geography.
In the report, Denis Ivanov noted in many respects unique situation for  Russia when in fact the business services market is formed due to the reduction of extensive scientific sector, which was once the Soviet Union and was forced to transform after the "economic shock". The emerging sector relied on the research and development of the Soviet period as a source of skilled labor and largely inherited its geography.At least the development of business services sector, according to the speaker, depending on the number of people with higher education, available at this time, as there is currently very high level of education is not the dominant factor in assessing human capital.